Minneapolis, Minnesota

Andrea Matthews Clark

Andrea Matthews is a graduate student in Hamline University’s MFA program, where she served on the 2006 editorial board of the University’s annual literary publication, Water~Stone Review. Her poem "Birds" was selected in July 2007 for "What Light," a series spotlighting Minnesota poets -- online, in readings, and in publication.

Andrea is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul and a former student fellow in Victorian women’s studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Before coming to poetry and creative nonfiction, she studied screenwriting and adaptation at the now-defunct Film in the Cities, where she joined a screenwriters’ group that met weekly for nearly a decade. She twice represented screenwriters as a juror on the Minnesota State Arts Board, and was a juror for the international Nicholl Fellowships, awarded annually to emerging screenwriters by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Andrea has written professionally for the past 17 years, primarily for Minnesota nonprofits, and currently lives and writes in Minneapolis.